Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life: A Philosophical Inquiry
- David B. Wilson, A. Borgmann
- Art
- 1 October 1986
Blending social analysis and philosophy, Albert Borgmann maintains that technology creates a controlling pattern in our lives. This pattern, discernible even in such an inconspicuous action as…
Innocence Betrayed: Paedophilia, the Media and Society
- J. Silverman, David B. Wilson
- Law
- 30 December 2002
Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. A Short History Of Sex Offending. 2. Paedophiles. 3. Beyond Victimhood. 4. Dealing With Paedophiles Within The Penal System. 5. Protecting The Community. 6.…
The British Hitman: 1974–2013
- Donal MacIntyre, David B. Wilson, Elizabeth Yardley, Liam Brolan
- Economics
- 1 September 2014
This exploratory article presents a typology of British ‘hitmen’ as identified within newspaper reports about contract killing. Demographic and criminological data related to these hitmen and their…
New foundations: Pseudo-pacification and special liberty as potential cornerstones for a multi-level theory of homicide and serial murder
- S. Hall, David B. Wilson
- Psychology
- 21 August 2014
Over the past 30 years the industrialized West has witnessed a move towards space, heterogeneity and subjectivity in the criminological study of violence and homicide. Although large-scale…
Inventing Black-on-Black Violence: Discourse, Space and Representation
- David B. Wilson
- Sociology
- 6 June 2005
This book explores the societal construction of "black-on-black" - referring to the 1980s when violence among African American perpetrators and victims increased. Massive job losses, debased…
What’s the deal with ‘websleuthing’? News media representations of amateur detectives in networked spaces
- Elizabeth Yardley, Adam Lynes, David B. Wilson, Emma Kelly
- Law
- 1 March 2018
This article explores websleuthing, a phenomenon widely discussed and debated in popular culture but little-researched by criminologists. Drawing upon a review of existing literature and analysis of…
In My Own World: A Case Study of a Paedophile's Thinking and Doing and His Use of the Internet
- David B. Wilson, Timothy Jones
- Psychology
- 1 May 2008
A case study of a convicted paedophile and the relationship between his 'thinking and doing' is presented to reveal how his fantasy life, his use of the Internet and his contact offences against…
‘Keeping Quiet’ or ‘Going Nuts’: Some Emerging Strategies Used by Young Black People in Custody at a Time of Childhood Being Re‐constructed
- David B. Wilson
- Sociology
- 1 December 2003
: This article concerns some emerging and preliminary findings related to what young black men in prison say about how they organise their lives inside, and as such uses an ethnographic approach to…
Narrative Beyond Prison Gates
- Elizabeth Yardley, David B. Wilson, D. Kemp, Michael Brookes
- SociologyInternational journal of offender therapy and…
- 1 February 2015
It is suggested that narrative identities are adapted and reconstructed as they are taken outside of the therapeutic community into a less supportive social environment, and may struggle to reconcile the redemptive identities nurtured in therapy with condemnatory ones that have echoes of a criminal past.
Becoming a Hitman
- David B. Wilson, Mohammed Rahman
- Philosophy
- 1 July 2015
This article discusses what might motivate someone to become a hitman. It does this by considering those hitmen identified as ‘Novices’ and ‘Dilettantes’ in the research by MacIntyre et al.…
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